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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisite: SOC 100. Sociological perspectives on mental health and illness, including their social histories; includes evaluation of social factors and processes involved in modern approaches to the causes and treatment of mental illness; problems of definition and diagnosis; recent research findings in areas of epidemiology, institutional care and control of the mentally ill, the care of mental patients, and social issues.
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3, 3/0 Prerequisites: SOC 100 and 6 additional credit hours in sociology. Ideas developed by the early founders of sociology, including Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and their contemporaries.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisites: SOC 100 and 6 additional credit hours of sociology. The significance and uses of sociological theory; includes the major current approaches to understanding society and social life, such as contemporary Marxism, conflict theory, functionalism, and the interpretive theories, such as symbolic interactionism, phenomenological sociology, and ethnomethodology; and theories of rational choice such as behavioral sociology and exchange theory. Newly developing perspectives such as feminist theory and postmodernism.
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3, 3/0 Prerequisite: SOC 100. Applied formal, social, and economic demography. Includes the study of treatment of birth, death, and migration. Methods of population measurement and projection, and sources of demographic data; hands-on experience in computer analysis of population data using general statistical packages and/or programs customized for use in population analysis.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisite: SOC 100. Theories in the sociology of religion; Religion and social change; religion in society; church and sect; social class and religion; the role of minister, priest and rabbi.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisites: SOC 100 and upper-division status. Societal development and change on an international level, with emphasis on the third world; topics include the major sociological theoretical models, conceptual frameworks and assumptions of development; the emergence and dynamics of the world system; the international division of labor; the interplay of development with gender, race, and ethnicity; social policy alternatives and strategies of social change and liberation.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisite: SOC 100. The study of field research techniques in the classroom, subsequently applied during the completion of 75 hours of field experience working with an agency or organization in the community.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisites: SOC 486; Faculty intern supervisor permission. Supervised fieldwork in appropriate agencies where students expand their knowledge of sociology and establish interactive ties in the job market. Academic components include orientation, training sessions, ongoing conferences with faculty/ agency supervisor, log/journal of the field experiences, and final report.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisites: SOC 100 and SOC 300. Research in selected area(s) of sociology. Required for B.A. sociology majors with senior status.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisites: SOC 100, 6 credit hours of sociology in a related field, and permission of instructor. In-depth special problems in sociology. Interested students should contact a member of the sociology faculty, who will secure approval from the Sociology Department. The course is then listed in the master schedule with a subtitle indicating the area of special concentration.
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